[Resolved] Displaying data from a Parent post on a CRED form that creates a Child post

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[Michael van der Steen]

Hi there,

I am trying to display data from a Parent post on CRED form that creates a Child post.

I have found a lot of support tickets on this topic, but when I apply them, it does not work:
Getting the Parent post name on the CRED form for the Child post works fine by using: [cred_post_parent get='title']

But now I want to add a specific field from the parent post. It is a date field. I have tried this (as suggested in different other support tickets):
[types field="date" style="text" format="j F Y" id="[cred-post-parent get='id']"][/types]
This does not work.

Is there something else I could try or is it (as of now) just not possible to display other data than parent post title, parent post ID and parent post url?

Thanks in advance,
Michael

[Noman]

Hi Michael,

Thank you for contacting Toolset support.

1. Please add following code in your theme’s or child theme’s functions.php file:

add_shortcode('cred_parent_field', 'cred_parent_field_func');
 
function cred_parent_field_func($atts)
    {
        extract( shortcode_atts( array(
            'id'=>null,
            'field' => null,
            'format' => null
        ), $atts ) );
 
        $parent_id=null;
 
        if ( isset($_GET['parent_'.$id.'_id']) )
        {
            $parent_id=intval($_GET['parent_'.$id.'_id']);
        }
     
         return do_shortcode( '[types field="' . $field .'" format="'. $format . '" id="'. $parent_id . '"][/types]');
    }

2. Add this shortcode in your child post form:

[cred_parent_field field="assigned-hours" format="FIELD_NAME: FIELD_VALUE" id="program"]

In above shortcode:
Replace field="assigned-hours" with your field name
Replace id="program" with your Parent CPT slug

We have another client who had the similar issue and was also able to solve it:
https://toolset.com/forums/topic/how-to-display-parent-field-in-cred-form/#post-271696

Thank you

[Michael van der Steen]

Hi Noman,

That did the trick. Perhaps - as a side note - the format argument is also one to consider. I wanted to show a date value so I also had to update the format. Perhaps this could be mentioned to others who have similar questions?

Thanks for the quick help 🙂

[Noman]

Yes for the date field format we will use the shortcode something like this:

[cred_parent_field field="assigned-hours" format="m-d-Y" id="program"]